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Ian D. Wilson September 12, 2019 University of Alberta, Augustana Campus 4901 – 46 Avenue Camrose, Alberta, T4V 2R3 780.679.1165 [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. (2015) Religious Studies (Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near East), University of Alberta M.A. (2008) Old Testament, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, with cross-registered coursework at Harvard Divinity School B.Sc. (2003) Biosystems Engineering, Clemson University ACADEMIC POSTS University of Alberta, Augustana Campus Director (2017– ) and Associate Director (2016–17), Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life Assistant Professor (2017– ) and Lecturer (2015–17) of Religious Studies, Department of Fine Arts & Humanities University of Alberta, North Campus Lecturer, Religious Studies, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies (2012–15) PUBLICATIONS Books 2018. History and the Hebrew Bible: Culture, Narrative, and Memory. Leiden: Brill. (Originally published as issue 3.2 [2018] of Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation) 2017. Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah. New York: Oxford University Press. 2015. History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures: A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi, ed. Ian D. Wilson and Diana V. Edelman. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press / Eisenbrauns. Journal Articles and Book Chapters Forthcoming. “Remembering the Future: Prophetic Literature’s Archives of Exile and Judah’s Social Memory in the Persian Era.” In A Time of Decisive Change: The Ancient Near I.D. Wilson – C.V. 1 East from Assurbanipal to Darius, ed. Pamela Barmash and Mark W. Hamilton. Atlanta: SBL Press. [8,000 words – in press] Forthcoming. “Nahum.” In New Oxford Bible Commentary, ed. Katherine Dell and David Lincicum. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [2,000 words – in press] Forthcoming. “Ezekiel as Written Text: Archiving Visions, Remembering Futures.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Book of Ezekiel, ed. Corrine Carvalho. New York: Oxford University Press. [9,100 words – in press] 2019. “The Emperor and His Clothing: David Robed and Unrobed before the Ark and Michal.” Pp. 125–41 in Dress and Clothing in the Hebrew Bible: “For All Her Household Are Clothed in Crimson”, ed. Antonios Finitsis. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 679. London: T&T Clark. 2018. “Spatial Frontiers: A Review of Constructions of Space III: Biblical Spatiality and the Sacred, ed. Jorunn Økland, J. Cornelis de Vos, and Karen J. Wenell (Bloomsbury, 2016); and The King and the Land: A Geography of Royal Power in the Biblical World, by Stephen C. Russell (Oxford University Press, 2017).” Hebrew Studies 59: 359–76. 2018. “History and the Hebrew Bible: Culture, Narrative, and Memory.” Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation 3.2: 1–69. 2017. “Isaiah 1-12: Presentation of a (Davidic?) Politics.” Pp. 50–71 in Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof: Poetry, Prophecy, and Justice in Hebrew Scripture, Essays in Honour of Francis Landy on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Biblical Interpretation Series. Leiden: Brill. 2016. “Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to rule by sense of smell! Superhuman Kingship in the Prophetic Books.” Pp. 30–44 in “‘Not in the Spaces We Know’: An Exploration of Science Fiction and the Bible,” ed. Frauke Uhlenbruch. Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 16, article 9. http://www.jhsonline.org/Articles/article_221.pdf 2016. “Yahweh’s Consciousness: Isaiah 40-48 and Ancient Judean Historical Thought.” Vetus Testamentum 66: 646–61. 2015. “Yahweh’s Anointed: Cyrus, Deuteronomy’s Law of the King, and Yehudite Identity.” Pp. 325–61 in Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire, ed. Jason M. Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers. Ancient Near East Monographs 13. Atlanta: SBL Press. 2015. “Chronicles and Utopia: Likely Bedfellows?” Pp. 151–65 in History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures: A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi, ed. Ian Douglas Wilson and Diana V. Edelman. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. 2015. “The Seat of Kingship: (Re)Constructing the City in Isaiah 24-27.” Pp. 395–412 in Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity: Remains and Representations of the Ancient City, ed. Adam Kemezis. Mnemosyne Supplements 375. Leiden: Brill. 2014. “Joseph, Jehoiachin, and Cyrus: On Book Endings, Exoduses and Exiles, and Yehudite/Judean Social Remembering.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 126: 521–34. 2014. “The Song of the Sea and Isaiah: Exodus 15 in Post-monarchic Prophetic Discourse.” Pp. I.D. Wilson – C.V. 2 123-48 in Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period, ed. Ehud Ben Zvi and Christoph Levin. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 461. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2013. “Conquest and Form: Narrativity in Joshua 5-11 and Historical Discourse in Ancient Judah.” Harvard Theological Review 106: 309–29. 2013. “Tyre, a Ship: The Metaphorical World of Ezekiel 27 in Ancient Judah.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 125: 249–62. 2012. “Judean Pillar Figurines and Ethnic Identity in the Shadow of Assyria.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 36: 259–78. 2009. “‘Face to Face’ with God: Another Look.” Restoration Quarterly 51: 107–114. Book Reviews, Dictionary Articles, and Miscellanea Forthcoming. Review of ‘Even God Cannot Change the Past’: Reflections on Seventeen Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology, ed. Lester L. Grabbe. Journal of Religion. 2018. Review of Finding Myth and History in the Bible: Scholarship, Scholars and Errors, ed. Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, Chiara Peri, and Jim West. Review of Biblical Literature. 6 pp. Available at: https://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/11255_12507.pdf 2017. Report on Reformation 500 events at the Chester Ronning Centre, with Geoff Dipple and Brandon Alakas. Sixteenth Century Journal 48: 1054. 2017. Review of My People as Your People: A Textual and Archaeological Analysis of the Reign of Jehoshaphat, by Chris McKinny. Journal of Theological Studies 68: 250–53. 2016. Review of The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity, by Eva Mroczek. Critical Research on Religion 4: 317–21. 2016. “Ebal, Mt.” Page 283 in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. Eric Orlin. New York: Routledge. 2015. Review of A Prophet Like Moses: Prophecy, Law, and Israelite Religion, by Jeffrey Stackert. Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 44: 413–15. 2014. Paradoxes, Enigma and Professorship: An Interview with Francis Landy on the Occasion of his Retirement from the University of Alberta. University of Alberta Religious Studies Spring Newsletter. Available at: https://hcommons.org/members/iandougwilson/ 2013. Review of The Ways of a King: Legal and Political Ideas in the Bible, by Geoffrey P. Miller. Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 13. http://www.jhsonline.org/reviews/reviews_new/review693.htm 2013. Review of Transforming Literature into Scripture: Texts as Cult Objects at Nineveh and Qumran, by Russell Hobson. Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 42: 401–404. 2012. “King of Tyre” and “Kingship” in Dictionary of the Bible and Western Culture: A Handbook for Students, ed. Mary Ann Beavis and Michael Gilmour. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press. 2011. Review of Land of Our Fathers: The Roles of Ancestor Veneration in Biblical Land I.D. Wilson – C.V. 3 Claims, by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 40: 403–404. RESEARCH TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS Invited Research Talks Forthcoming 2019. Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting: Formation of Isaiah program unit. San Diego, California. 2019. “Remembering Kingship: Samuel’s Contributions to Postmonarchic Thought.” Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament. University of Aberdeen, Scotland. August 4-9. 2018. “Remembering the Future: Prophetic Literature’s Representations of Exile and Judah’s Social Memory.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting: Exile (Forced Migrations) in Biblical Literature Seminar. Denver, Colorado. November 17-20. 2018. “Community Memory and Imagination: What Saith the Scriptures?” St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta. March 15. 2016. “History, Memory, Literature: On Reading Literary Artifacts as Historical Sources.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting: Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology program unit. Joint session with ASOR: Methods of Historiography in the Study of Ancient Israel and the Levant. San Antonio, Texas. 2016. “Remembering Conquest: The Book of Joshua as Literary Artifact.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting: Current Historiography and Ancient Israel and Judah program unit. San Antonio, Texas. 2014. “Chronicles and Utopia, Likely Bedfellows? Kingship as a Test Case.” European Association of Biblical Studies Conference: Chronicles and Utopia panel. Vienna, Austria. 2014. Response to “Tamar and Tamar: The Garments of Widowhood, Prostitution, and Virginity” by Sara Koenig. Pacific Northwest regional meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature: Hebrew Bible Research Group on Clothing. University of Calgary. 2013. “Judges, Samuel, and the Rise of Monarchy in Yehudite Social Memory.” European Association of Biblical Studies Conference: Israel and the Production and Reception of Authoritative Books in the Persian and Hellenistic Period research group. University of Leipzig, Germany. 2012. “The Song of the Sea within Post-monarchic Prophetic and Historical Discourses.” LMU Munich and University of Alberta Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Workshop: Thinking of Water in the Persian/Early Hellenistic Period in Judah. University of Alberta. Conference